Charges dropped against first suspect in college shooting

By CNN Staff

Updated 12:36 PM ET, Tue January 29, 2013

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Shooting at Lone Star College – Lone Star College freshman Sheketa Taylor embraces her father, Judson Gimblin, after a shooting on the suburban Houston campus Tuesday, January 22. Three people were left wounded on Lone Star's North Harris campus, authorities said, after an apparent argument between two men.

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Shooting at Lone Star College – Harris County sheriff's officers work the scene after the January 22 shooting.

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Shooting at Lone Star College – A sheriff's deputy stands guard at the entrance to Lone Star College's North Harris campus on January 22. The campus was put on lockdown following reports of the shooting.

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Shooting at Lone Star College – Students talk on cell phones and wait after evacuating the campus.

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Shooting at Lone Star College – Sheriff's deputies and Houston police stand on the street in front of the campus.

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Shooting at Lone Star College – Law enforcement secure the area.

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Shooting at Lone Star College – Students evacuate the area with a sheriff's deputy near the college's North Harris campus. There were more than 10,000 students on the campus at the time of the shooting, spokesman Jed Young said.

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Shooting at Lone Star College – A mother joins her son as he evacuates the campus on foot.

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Shooting at Lone Star College – Law enforcement secures the area near Lone Star College. Authorities were searching for a suspect in a wooded area next to the campus, a law enforcement source said.

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Carlton Berry, 22, was arrested and charged the day of the shooting

Trey Foster, 22, was arrested Friday and remains in jail

The shooting happened last week at the North Harris campus of Lone Star College

It apparently stemmed from an argument between Foster and Berry, police say

Carlton Berry, 22, was arrested on the day of the shooting and charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, but the Harris County district attorney dismissed the charges pending "further investigation," Harris County District Clerk Claire Kennedy said.

The Harris County sheriff has scheduled a news conference for Monday afternoon to talk about why the charges against Berry were dropped.

Investigators arrested another man -- 22-year-old Trey Foster -- on Friday, charging him with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, Kennedy said.

Foster was arrested in Plano, more than 250 miles north of the scene of the shooting at the North Harris campus of Lone Star College, just outside Houston.